No Till Notes: Irrigation Rotation

During our Panhandle No-till Partnership’s field days we also looked at no-till production practices on irrigated acres. The farms we visited have been using the standard irrigated no-till crop rotation of winter wheat, corn, dry edible beans and back to winter wheat.

Some of the producers are now including field peas as part of their crop rotation. On our farm we have moved to a winter wheat (followed by a forage crop), dry edible bean, corn, field pea crop rotation.

We feel this rotation will be a better agronomical rotation for the crops we grow. We think the winter wheat yields will...